Vincent Ahrend
Senior Software Engineer at Ditto
Berlin, Germany
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Top SchoolVincent Ahrend is a Berlin-based software engineer and founder with about three years of professional experience building full‑stack web tools that accelerate iteration and clarify problem statements. He specializes in React frontends and Python backends, applying them to web apps, scraping, API design and automation, and has repeatedly taken concepts from prototype to funded production (e.g., metawahl.de and mietlimbo). As a founder or senior engineer at multiple ventures, he blends hands-on implementation with product thinking and cross-disciplinary collaboration to surface users’ implicit needs. Vincent has led technical teams and projects—from civic tech archives to personal-assistant and democratic participation apps—demonstrating a knack for building practical, policy-minded software. His background in cognitive science informs how he translates diverse stakeholders’ mental models into clear UX and API designs. Despite a compact career, he consistently ships end-to-end systems and secures public funding for prototypes, showing both technical depth and entrepreneurial drive.
3 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Cognitive Science, Bachelor’s Degree, Cognitive Science at Universität Osnabrück
English, German
Github Skills (79)
unsafe9
linux9
testing9
ruby9
shell8
firefox8
api8
wireless8
nvm8
swiftui8
bluetooth8
ffi8
bash8
homebrew8
chrome-extension8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
getditto/template-app-nodejs-todo
Feb 2024 - Jun 2024
Contributions:4 reviews, 13 comments in 3 months
getditto/react-ditto
Apr 2024 - Nov 2024
React wrappers for Ditto for easy integration using both components or hooks
Contributions:3 reviews, 8 PRs, 30 pushes in 7 months
reactreact-hookswrappersdittohooks
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